Melbourne Camera Club

Print Pick Up Stories of the City Exhibition (Option 1)
2025-07-27 15:00 - 15:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

APG July Meeting - Special guest Renato Colangelo
2025-07-28 19:30 - 22:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
July 28, 2025 @ 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Show and tell, feedback on printmaking, passion projects, work in progress, sharing of interesting cameras.
Outline 2025 exhibition calendar and process.
Special Guest:
Demonstration by special guest Renato Colangelo
Renato will conduct a demonstration showing his experimental photography using an open shutter in dark places. He will use himself as the subject also using various light sources to paint light into the composition.
Selby Markham will demonstrate how to prepare a mat for exhibition prints.

25th Analogue Exhibition entries close
2025-07-31 17:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Print Pick Up Stories of the City Exhibition (Option 2)
2025-07-31 19:30 - 20:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Wine & Cheese Social Event
2025-07-31 19:30 - 20:00, 2025-08-07 19:30 - 20:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prior to the guest speaker this Thursday, we will be holding a Wine and Cheese Social Event, from 7.30pm-8pm in the Gallery, please come along to socialise with other members prior to the presentation.

Special Guest Presenter - Andrew Haysom - Digital Artist, Nature Lover, Writer and Educator.
2025-07-31 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Photographer & Artist Andrew Haysom

is a talented Nature Photographer and Artist. Andrew loves capturing the beauty of his natural surroundings, particularly the local birds and wildlife with his ever-ready Camera.

Andrew produces stunning digital artwork from his photographs – creating beautiful, ethereal and often surreal results. His vibrant use of colour paired with his ability to capture such intimate photographs of Australian birds, makes Andrew Haysom a sought after Artist among Bird enthusiasts and Art collectors alike.
Andrew is also an eminent expert of street art and has put Melbourne on the international stage .
Do not miss this opportunity to meet Andrew .

Digital Art and Photography by Andrew Haysom – Street Art Cities
Digital Art and Photography by Andrew Haysom – Digital Art (Patterns)
Andrew Haysom (@andrew_haysom) • Instagram photos and videos
Digital Art and Photography by Andrew Haysom – Photography

Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom
2025-08-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-03 09:30 - 16:00, 2025-08-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-17 09:30 - 16:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This Analogue Photography course is open to MCC members as well to non-members. It is designed for those people who are just starting to process and print film. It can also be taken by those who wish to update their film processing and printing skills. Course participants must be over 18 years old.
The course is divided into two units:

Processing the exposed film – Unit 1
Printing from a set of negatives – Unit 2

This course has been pre-booked and full. For more information and if you are interested in the course please contact the organiser via the course page below:
https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/courses/analogue-photography-basics-course2/

Portrait Group
2025-08-04 19:00 - 22:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This is the monthly meeting of the Portrait Group – first Monday of each month. An excellent chance to practice portrait photography skills, learn about studio lighting and grow your portfolio.
The meeting is a practical photography session. We use flash lighting in a studio setting. We will have 2 sets operating and 2-3 models, so there will be ample opportunity to shoot.
Open to all MCC members (and visitors may attend up to 2 sessions).
If you want to shoot, please bring:

your camera (with a standard hot shoe on top for the flash trigger)
$10 for a shooters licence.

Please come along at 7pm to help set up. We start shooting at 8pm, and stop when the models say they’ve had enough (typically 2-3 hours).
Please remember that after the shoot you are required to send some photos back for the models. (See https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/interest-groups/portrait-group/portrait-image-returns/)

Introduction to Photography Course
2025-08-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-08-10 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-08-17 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-08-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Introduction to Photography Course – Free 12 Month Membership – August 2025
Tuesday, Starting the 5th of August 2025
PLEASE NOTE 7.15 pm START (AEST)
254-256 Ferrars Street – South Melbourne, VIC 3205 – Australia
More information to follow.

Mid-Week Outing
2025-08-06 10:30 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Note: This outing has been moved to Wed 6th Aug.
Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Details sent via mailout on 15 July 2025.
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

Guest Presenter Adrian Whear APSEM
2025-08-07 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Adrian Whear is no stranger to our club and everything photographic in Melbourne. His name is synonymous with “Street” “Travel” and especially his masterful understanding of Black and White photography.
We are extremely lucky to welcome Adrian to our club and experience his ever-evolving body of work and his travels.
Here is a little something from Adrians’s website: –
I am not a street photographer that has studied the works of the renown pioneers of the genre, nor have I completed a photography qualification. Simply I am mostly a self-taught amateur photographer. Photography was a natural extension of my love of travel. The journey probably started during a trip to Ethiopia and Morocco. I captured a couple of images that drove me to explore photography as something more than a means of taking record pictures. Upon returning home I started to make the effort to go out and walk the streets and alleys of my hometown Melbourne and its inner suburbs, and in the process, I started to discover my home cities true soul. From there I just photographed whatever captured my attention, slowly forming an understanding, vision and style for my photography.
A not to be missed experience.

Board Meeting
2025-08-11 19:30 - 21:00
Any items for the Board should be provided on the standard proposal template – link here
and emailed to secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Photo Discussion Group
2025-08-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Photo Discussion Group provides a regular forum where you can discuss your passion for photography with like-minded people.
In a friendly, helpful environment, we explore a diverse range of photography topics – what makes competition winning images, creative techniques, how do judges evaluate our work, what tools we use to create the images we love, and how we may progress our skills to a higher level – to name a few.
Whatever your interests – photographic genres, image capture, image processing, printing, PDI, the latest tools, or just looking for tips – you will not be disappointed.

New Members Induction
2025-08-14 19:00 - 19:45 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
There will be a tour of the club rooms as well as a description of the special interest groups, competitions, exhibitions and a Q&A.
Come along to meet other new members and learn more about making the most of your MCC membership.
Stay on and enjoy the monthly print competition.

Print Competition (Club Rooms only)
2025-08-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Shadow/Light

Judge: Lisa Law (link)

Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 13 August 2025

MCC Lighting Group SIG - August 2025
2025-08-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join us in the studio where we will explore basic flash functions, including on-camera flash and off-camera flash (remote). Please bring your own flash if you have one. This is a hands-on event where you will learn to use your own equipment. (If you don’t have your own equipment, come anyway to learn about flash photography).

Digital Editing Group
2025-08-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
As the level of understanding of digital editing techniques varies enormously among members, we will aim to provide information to members at basic, intermediate and advanced levels in each meeting.
The focus is not on how to capture an image, but on what can be done with it in post-processing after downloading the images to your computer. Topics such as adjusting exposure and saturation, compositing, HDR and special effects will be just some of the areas covered. The digital editing techniques discussed will primarily be applicable to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, however these techniques are generally transferable to many other digital editing programs.
This month we will have a look at some Lightroom start to finish editing which of course can be also done in Photoshop’s Camera Raw.
Ever spent a lot of time removing dust spots, well now it can be done automatically. Adobe very recently released an update to Camera Raw which automates this tedious job. At the moment it is only available in ACR, but will probably make it’s way into Lightroom soon.
Another new feature that is currently only in Photoshop Beta is the Harmonize tool, something that is going to make compositing so much easier.

Mid-Week Outing
2025-08-19 10:30 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Richmond Street Walk (West of Burnley St).
Details sent via mailout on 6 Aug 2025.
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

Conceptual Photography SIG
2025-08-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Check our homepage for the annual plan for 2025,
and the link to all past presentations.

August CPSIG Meeting
Date: Wednesday, 20 August
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Place: MCC Clubrooms

Please bring an Artist Statement to discuss, especially if you will be submitting work for the Exhibition in October.

Our Agenda:
Report on Ballarat Bienalle: Open Walls, Opening, and CPSIG Excursion to Ballarat – Andrew
Presentation on two photographers – Robin
Exhibition: EOI and Matting, Mounting, and Alternatives – Bob
Share Your Artist Statement – All members
What’s On – garrie

Cheers
Bob Warfield, Andrew Tan, garrie maguire, Wayne Harridge, Robin Tully,
Coordinators of CPSIG

Special Guest Presenter Kay Gibbons.
2025-08-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Celebrating life through a lens
A little about Kay …don’t miss what will be a sensational night at the club.

​As a child growing up around Avalon Beach and Lara, Australia, Kay was taught to respect the moods and movement of land, sea and sky. These observations influence her works.
As a young adult Kay took up photography, singing, and painting. A 30-year career as a professional singer-songwriter ensued.​ In her spare time she completed courses in photography, professional writing and editing, and interior design.
With a passion for colour psychology and metaphysics, Kay is also extensively practiced in the art of healing modalities and meditation.
​Combining an artistic eye with mindfulness and her love of nature and humanness, Kay reminds us to see beauty in the detail, find gratitude in the ordinary, and feel the rhythm of life in the everyday.

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“In a very focused way (pun intended) I’ve learnt so much about living in the moment, being in awe of the tiniest details, slowing down, and falling in love with the world over and over again through the lens of my camera. Photography sharpens my gratitude, keeps me mindful, and reminds me to add happiness to the world, not subtract from it. If people consider my images to be without meaning, then they have overlooked mankind’s need to feel peace and joy.”

APG August Meeting
2025-08-25 19:30 - 22:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
August 25, 2025 @ 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Show and tell, feedback on printmaking, passion projects, work in progress, sharing of interesting cameras.
Outline 2025 exhibition calendar and process.
Guest speaker: Eddie Jim 10×8 Olympians project – Introduced by Greg.
